Born in Oregon, Moriah LaChapell earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Western Oregon University. She also studied viticulture at Washington State University. She currently works in horticulture. She lives in a little town in Oregon with her daughter and husband. Her work has been published online at Misfits’ Miscellany andThe Camel Saloon and in print by Silver Birch Press. […]
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This Shade of Blue
With a career that spans travel, technology, advertising, and social media, Melissa Hassard can’t remember a time when she wasn’t writing. A long-time resident of North Carolina, she founded Women Writers of the Triad, a support and educational group for local women writers, and 20 Lines a Day, an online writing and photography project that […]
Drawn Back by Oranges
Kalima Hamilton wrote this beautiful poem. She is the author of Outside the Lava Fields (Aldrich Press 2012). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming at Prairie Schooner, Hawai’i Pacific Review, and Shenandoah. Drawn Back by Oranges By Kalima Hamilton Late March and the faithful swallows returnto San Juan Capistrano; in ones and twos they […]
Sandy Hook Silence
R Martin Basden’s most recent poem to appear here was Mark the Date (August 2012). Sandy Hook Silence By R Martin Basden A photograph ofbreathless complaintthrown heavenwardfrom gaped mouth conveyswithout translationthe rhetoric of pain That imageseen from our harm-free perchcommands our empathetic choruscry outcry outwail in their stead
Bill’s Hands
Abbie Johnson Taylor’s most recent poem to appear here was Cancer (October 2012). Bill’s Hands By Abbie Johnson Taylor Soft, gentle, they caressed me,once milked cows, fed livestock, gathered eggs,tapped computer keys in a busy office,glided back and forth along Braille pages,placed a ring on my finger, as he said, “I do.”When one hand no longer worked,the […]
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